PowerPoint Presentations

1. PowerPoint Presentations Kate Davison School of Mathematics and Statistics kate.davison@ncl.ac.uk 16th May 2006

3. An effective presentation: • Is not too long – nobody ever complained a talk was too short • Involves the audience – they will not only remember but understand • Uses pictures instead of words – increases message retention five fold • Entertains the eyes as well as the mind – pretty pictures capture and maintain interest

4. An effective presenter: • Lives with the fear – everyone gets nervous, deal with it • Maintains good eye contact – people won’t listen to the top of your head • Does not read – memorise the key points, it’s much more natural • Avoids jargon – if you make the audience feel dumb they will switch off • Prepares – “If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail”

5. Technical Workshop

6. Preliminaries • As part of the workshop you will need a JPEG image and an MPEG movie they are available for download at http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~n0072132/public/PowerPoint/ • Right click on each file name and select save target as • Save them in the folder you intend to save your PowerPoint work in

7. Opening PowerPoint On Desktop • Click Start Programs Microsoft Office PowerPoint In RAS • In Internet Explorer go to ras.ncl.ac.uk • Log in using your windows password • Click Office 2003 • Click Powerpoint 2003

8. Technical Outline • Setting up your presentation • Background • Colour Scheme • Slide type

9. Technical Outline • Setting up your presentation • Inserting Objects • Pictures/Clip art • Text Boxes • Movies

10. Technical Outline • Setting up your presentation • Inserting Objects • Custom Animation • Entrance / Emphasis / Exit • Slide Transition • Auto Slide Change

11. Technical Outline • Setting up your presentation • Inserting Objects • Custom Animation • Death By PowerPoint • What not to do

12. Technical Outline • Setting up your presentation • Inserting Objects • Custom Animation • Death By PowerPoint • Good PowerPoint practice • Text size • Style

13. Setting up your presentation • Choose a background • Pattern and background “style” only • Colour Scheme • Title colour • Main text colour • Choosing Slide types • Bullets • Titles • Pictures

14. Setting up your presentation • Choose a background • Pattern and background “style” only • This should apply to all slides in a presentation • Often a speaker uses the same style in ALL of their talks. This allows that style to be associated with them and aids the association of material between talks • Select either dark or light background it makes text easier to colour

15. Setting up your presentation Click Create a new presentation

16. Setting up your presentation Click From design template

17. Setting up your presentation Click your chosen background style

18. Setting up your presentation Add a title and subtitle as instructed on screen

19. Setting up your presentation • Colour Scheme • When selecting a scheme ensure the title colour is bold and eye catching • Main text colour should be easily legible on all areas of the slide

20. Setting up your presentation Click Color Schemes your chosen scheme

21. Setting up your presentation • Choosing Slide types • Bullets • Titles • Pictures

22. Setting up your presentation Click Insert New Slide

23. Setting up your presentation Click slide with title and bullets

24. Setting up your presentation Populate Slide as instructed on screen

25. Have you saved????? Click File Click Save As Select an appropriate location Insert an appropriate file name Click Save As soon as you have anything worth saving SAVE IT! Do this every 5 minutes!!!

26. Inserting objects • How to insert pictures • JPEG/Gif/BMP • Clip art • Including mpeg movies • Size?

27. Inserting pictures Click Insert New Slide Choose Slide type

28. Inserting pictures Click Insert Picture From File

29. Inserting pictures Select Picture1.jpg Click Insert

30. Inserting pictures Click and drag a white circle to resize Pinky!

31. Inserting pictures You should have something like this now!!

32. Inserting text box Label Pinky: Click Insert Text Box

33. Inserting text box Click and drag to locate the text box

34. Inserting text box Type text highlight change text size

35. Inserting text box You should have a labelled Pinky now!

36. Inserting other objects • Clip Art – exactly as pictures: • Click Insert Picture Clip Art • Equations, BMP files etc. • As before click insert • Click object • Select appropriate option in list

37. Inserting Objects • Inserting movies (mpeg) • Size? • The larger the .mpg file the more likely it is to cause problems in your talk • Very pixelated movies look unprofessional (see example!!)

38. Inserting movies Click Insert New Slide Choose type

39. Inserting movies Click Insert Movie From File

40. Inserting movies Select Movie1 click ok

41. Inserting movies Take the choice!

42. Inserting movies Click and drag a white circle to resize

43. Inserting movies Right click on the movie Play movie

44. Inserting movies Well Done you’ve imported a movie!

45. Inserting other objects • Most other objects can be inserted in much the same fashion • To insert an object of any sort click insert then the most appropriate option from the menu • 9 times out of 10 this will be the correct option • Try inserting clipart on one of your slides • Don’t be scared – it’s hard to break anything (provided you save first!!)

46. Custom Animation – something extra • Entrance / Emphasis / Exit • How to • Which effects? • Speed? • Slide Transition • Why? Too much? • Auto Slide Change • Fake movies

47. Custom Animation • Entrance / Emphasis / Exit • How to • Which effects? • Speed?

48. Custom Animation Click Slide Layout Custom Animation

49. Custom Animation Click Pinky Add effect Entrance choose entrance

50. Which custom animation? • Never choose more than one animation type per slide (maybe even per presentation) • Over fussy custom animations steal the audiences attention • Make sure the animation is not too slow • Don’t use custom animation unless it adds to the presentation • Only use emphasis if there is VERY good reason